Automatically reload your Chrome extension during development

Code from screencast and tutorial is available on Github.
The screencast has more detail and explanation than this tutorial.

Boost development productivity by auto-reloading the Chrome extension

In my 2part series I used Yeoman and Angular to create a Chrome extension. One annoyance was that after each code change I had to reload the extension and then reload the page to see the changes. This quickly becomes tiresome so I created a grunt plugin called grunt-crx-auto-reload that when used in conjunction with grunt watch will automatically reload the extension after a change.

This tutorial is based on the binged extension that was scaffolded by the Yeoman chrome-extension-generator. Adapt for your extension environment.